Letters -- Published Nov. 14, 2012

Shame on Lincoln Unified trustees for their recent decision to drug test athletes and cheerleaders. Does the school district know the words "civil liberties"?

Shame on Lincoln Unified trustees for their recent decision to drug test athletes and cheerleaders. Does the school district know the words "civil liberties"?

The only member who had enough sense to vote against this was Donald Ruhstaller. My praise goes to him.

My children went through Lincoln schools, and if they had been faced with this dilemma, I would have had to take the next step to ensure their rights would not be taken away. How sad that our schools have to take it upon themselves to try to protect our children. This is a parent's responsibility, from the home front.

With the nation's political climate today, and government so involved with our lives, it appears that our local school board has followed in the same direction.

If you enforce this with one group, you must enforce it for all.

Georgeanne HislopStockton

The Democrats coined the phrase "War on Women," but in reality, they promote, encourage and finance the "War on the Unborn" - the taking of innocent human life in the womb.

Their party platform was solidly pro-abortion and their partner, Planned Parenthood, the No. 1 promoter and provider of abortions, rakes in almost $500 million of your federal tax dollars every year.

In war, the medical corps saves lives. In abortion, the medical profession takes lives. Aborted babies get no purple hearts, no taps, no Memorial Day, no trial, no jury, no justice.

Aristotle says, "The State comes into existence that man may live" and the first duty of government is to protect life. If the state can legalize the murder of some, it can legalize the murder of many. Abortion today justifies euthanasia tomorrow.

Every voter will be judged on how he voted to protect or destroy innocent human life.

Mary C. KaehlerLodi

We need to take our city back, like towns did back in the days of the Old West. What we're doing isn't working or having any effect on the escalating murder rate that has reached epidemic proportions. City Hall meetings, task forces and consultants aren't offering any solutions only good intentions.

Not to devalue the attempts to curb Stockton's increasing murder rate, but apparently the "full brunt of the law" appears to be nothing more than a slap on the wrist, warehousing criminals for $40,000 a year with other felons, where they're glorified by prison gang members, only to be released early to again wreak havoc on the communities.

It's high time to call it like it is and evoke Martial Law. Our city's murder rate is out of control. Some have said it's a turf war with gangs in Oakland. No matter what the cause, our citizenry deserve better protection from the subhumans who don't have an ounce of civility, affiliation with society or respect for human life.

If the murderers don't care about society, why should society care about them? We have to quit worrying about murderers' civil rights and deal shock on killers who have no regard for other people.

The National Guard combined with other law enforcement should set up road blocks, conduct house to house weapons checks and punish people caught with unregistered weapons. It isn't about rehabilitation, treatment or killer's rights, but one of incapacitating them from killing other people. Give them one week; cash for weapons, then deal shock.

We have to try something; we owe it to the innocent victims killed.

Ronald ConboyStockton

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